Sociobiology: The New Synthesis.
WILSON, Edward O.
Sociobiology: The New Synthesis.
FIRST EDITION OF SOCIOBIOLOGY: A NEW SYNTHESIS; INSCRIBED BY EDWARD O. WILSON WITH A DRAWING OF AN ANT
Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1975.
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Item Number: 1773
First edition. Oblong quarto, original cloth. Inscribed by Edward O. Wilson on the title page, who has drawn an image of an ant. Some foxing to the page edges, otherwise near fine in a near fine dust jacket that shows light rubbing.
When this classic work was first published in 1975, it created a new discipline and started a tumultuous round in the age-old nature versus nurture debate. It was voted by officers and fellows of the international Animal Behavior Society the most important book on animal behavior of all time. "It is impossible to leave Wilson's book without having one's sense of life permanently and dramatically widened" (The Atlantic). "It is impossible to leave Wilson's book without having one's sense of life permanently and dramatically widened" (The Atlantic).



